for the Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway is over, the top five: #11-Hamlin 179.651 #18-Busch 179.174 #88-Earnhardt Jr. 179.141 #9-Kahne 178.731 #24-Gordon 178.510 slowest: #70-Sauter 171.065 & #07-Bowyer 172.125 no speed listed: #84-Allmendinger most laps run: #6-Ragan 25 note: the track qualifying record is held by Ward Burton, in March 1996 [after the track was repaved the last time] 173.797mph incidents: got another one in the wall as #41-Sorenson slapped the turn 2 wall and crushed the right front of the car and will have to go to a backup car for qualifying this afternoon, the 4th driver to a backup; late in the session, #48-Johnson spun off turn 4, held it off the outside wall, and kissed the inside wall, doing some damage to the left front and the splitter…this is a backup car already, but it is repairable. Then just after the track went green again, #15-Menard came off turn 4, scraped the wall, then came down and slapped the inside wall, the #15 will go to a backup; then in turn 2, #7-Gordon scraped the wall, but the car looks repairable. See all the speeds on my Darlington Practice Speeds Page.(5-9-2008)
